Jacobo Grinberg-Zylberbaum (born

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, 1946), known as Jacobo Grinberg was a Mexican neurophysiologist and

psychologist A psychologist is a professional who practices psychology and studies mental states, perceptual, cognitive, emotional, and social processes and behavior. Their work often involves the experimentation, observation, and explanation, interpretatio ...

. He studied Mexican

shamanism Shamanism is a spiritual practice that involves a practitioner (shaman) interacting with the spirit world through altered states of consciousness, such as trance. The goal of this is usually to direct spirits or spiritual energies into ...

, Eastern disciplines,

meditation Meditation is a practice in which an individual uses a technique to train attention and awareness and detach from reflexive, "discursive thinking", achieving a mentally clear and emotionally calm and stable state, while not judging the meditat ...

astrology Astrology is a range of Divination, divinatory practices, recognized as pseudoscientific since the 18th century, that propose that information about human affairs and terrestrial events may be discerned by studying the apparent positions ...

and

telepathy Telepathy () is the purported vicarious transmission of information from one person's mind to another's without using any known human sensory channels or physical interaction. The term was first coined in 1882 by the classical scholar Frederic ...

through the

scientific method The scientific method is an Empirical evidence, empirical method for acquiring knowledge that has been referred to while doing science since at least the 17th century. Historically, it was developed through the centuries from the ancient and ...

. He wrote more than 50 books about these subjects. Grinberg disappeared in December 1994.

Biography

Jacobo Grinberg-Zylberbaum was born in

in 1946. Grinberg decided to study the human mind when he was 12 years old, after his mother died from a brain tumor. He studied

psychology Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. Its subject matter includes the behavior of humans and nonhumans, both consciousness, conscious and Unconscious mind, unconscious phenomena, and mental processes such as thoughts, feel ...

at the Faculty of Psychology of

UNAM The National Autonomous University of Mexico (, UNAM) is a public research university in Mexico. It has several campuses in Mexico City, and many others in various locations across Mexico, as well as a presence in nine countries. It also has 34 ...

. In 1970, he went to

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to study

psychophysiology Psychophysiology (from Greek , ''psȳkhē'', "breath, life, soul"; , ''physis'', "nature, origin"; and , '' -logia'') is the branch of psychology that is concerned with the physiological bases of psychological processes. While psychophysiolog ...

at the Brain Research Institute. He earned a Ph.D. at the E. Roy John Laboratory. His doctoral research focused on the electrophysiological effects of geometric stimuli on the human brain. When he went back to

Mexico Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in North America. It is the northernmost country in Latin America, and borders the United States to the north, and Guatemala and Belize to the southeast; while having maritime boundar ...

, where he founded a laboratory of psychophysiology at the

Universidad Anáhuac The Anahuac University Network is a private universities system grouped and administered by the religious congregation of the Legion of Christ. The network is composed of several universities, some with different names and educational approache ...

. He installed another laboratory of this kind in UNAM in the late 1970s. He founded the Instituto Nacional para el Estudio de la Conciencia (INPEC) in 1987, financed by UNAM and CONACYT. Jacobo published several of his books through INPEC. Grinberg wrote more than 50 books about brain activity,

witchcraft Witchcraft is the use of Magic (supernatural), magic by a person called a witch. Traditionally, "witchcraft" means the use of magic to inflict supernatural harm or misfortune on others, and this remains the most common and widespread meanin ...

, and

. Grinberg put his reputation as a scientist in danger when he tried to use the scientific method in shamanism studies. He combined the two in his professional work, always trying to understand the “magic world.” Grinberg attempted to change the way that the relationship between science and consciousness is understood. His work was rejected by fellow scientists as " psi assumption", the premise that any deviation from chance represents a case of telepathy.

Disappearance

Jacobo Grinberg has been missing since December 8, 1994. On December 12, his family prepared a party for him to celebrate his 48th birthday, but he did not show up. It was common for him to make spontaneous travels or just not answer his phone for days, which is why his disappearance did not seem odd to his family in the beginning. There are many

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surrounding Grinberg's disappearance. One of them implying that the CIA caused his disappearance because his studies put in danger the pharmaceutical and medical industry.

The Sintergy Theory

Grinberg's sintergy theory states that there is a continuous space of energy, and the common human can perceive only a part of it. The result of this process is what everyone understands as "reality." This theory tries to answer the question of the creation of the experience. The book where it is mentioned, ''El Cerebro Consciente'', was translated into seven languages.

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Biography

Disappearance

The Sintergy Theory

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